Southwestern Airlines flight was carrying 139 passengers when it had to be evacuated at John Wayne Airport in Santa Monica.
Behind the ostrich feathers and sequins, the parades tackle serious matters such as crime, corruption, drugs, poverty and intolerance towards the LGBT community.
A panorama photograph of motorbikes in a World War Two shipwreck in the Red Sea has won Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018.
Passenger at Auckland Airport went for a cigarette break while at the gate and bypassed security upon returning.
Germany celebrates its annual Rose Monday carnival in traditional fashion: with floats featuring huge, unflattering puppets of politicians.
Teams throw 500,000 kilograms of oranges at each other as the northern Italian town of Ivrea marks the start of carnival season.
Seven of Rio de Janeiro's elite samba schools danced through the specially-built Sambadrome on the first night of the city's famous Carnival parades.
Eurostar has announced a direct line between London and Amsterdam opening in April, that will leave the cities less than four hours apart.
People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.
A passenger jet carrying more than 270 people was forced into a 30,000ft emergency descent after a failure in cabin pressure, a report has found.
Escape to somewhere exotic and tropical this winter: the 23rd annual orchid festival at Kew Gardens in southwest London.
The spectacular costumes – covered in feathers, sequins and jewels – can be more than 5m high and weigh over 80kg.
In pictures: The most exciting cars on show at Retromobile 2018, including the Ferrari FXX, a stunning 1938 Bugatti and a pristine Ferrari 250GT Cabriolet.
Photos show buildings in Hualien leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, shattered glass and bent iron beams.
Britain is 10th most congested country in the world as fed-up drivers spend average of 31 hours a year in slow or unmoving traffic.
The Alps Ski Resort was one of South Korea's first winter sports destinations, attracting tens of thousands of skiers every year, until it abruptly shut in 2006.
The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total.
The world's largest annual migration is underway as hundreds of millions of Chinese people head back home to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their families.
IBTimes UK presents a gallery featuring the best photos of the most creative costumes and masks at this year's Venice Carnival.
An average month's amount of snow fell on Moscow over the weekend, with the depth of the snow reaching 62 centimetres (24.5 inches) in some parts.
IBTimes UK teams up with EyeEm for a photography competition focusing on the clean lines, shapes and compositions of minimalist architecture across the globe.
Ryanair will put a 'Brexit clause' into all tickets for summer 2019, in case a UK-EU deal on aviation is not agreed before the UK leaves the bloc.
Amazon says its "employees can work in an environment that's more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office." Like that's a good thing.
Venice carnival costumes are changing. It's not just fabulous ballgowns for the ladies and black cloaks for the men. Why should the ladies have all the fun?
Re-booking your sunbed will be trialled in the CanaryIslands next month and will be available in 30 hotels this summer.
Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse, often referred to as the "Pope of French cuisine", died aged 91 on 20 January.
Invasion Day rallies to protest against Australia Day, the celebration of the start of white colonisation and persecution of Aboriginal Australians 230 years ago.
Rivers across France keep getting more and more swollen as more and more rain falls on the country,.
Asiana Airlines and a flight attendant have been ordered to repay a former model who suffered the accident in 2014.
Paris City Hall closed roads along the shores of the Seine as water levels rose at least 3.3 metres (nearly 11 feet) above the normal level.